The Scottish Snippets Newsletter in its original format began in April 1997 and continued in an unbroken series for 591 issues. Although no longer produced in that style, there is now this regular update on the new and updated pages on the Rampant Scotland site including "Scottie's Photo Diary From Scotland".
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Scottish Pictorial Calendar 2015
On the Sunday after the newsletter announcing that the Rampant Scotland 2015 Scottish Pictorial Calendar was available for printing on your PC, the site's servers went down on Sunday and didn't come back until Tuesday. It wasn't that the servers were overloaded - "just" a power failure which fooled the backup generator and caused the system to crash! Support staff worked hard to repair the damage but recovery took a lot of effort. I'm glad to say that, since then, page views have been at a high level and the system has been going at full speed!If you missed the calendar or want to go and see the pictures again, you can find the index at Rampant Scotland Pictorial Calendar 2015 - but not before you've read Tam's latest snippets of news from Scotland - see below!
Feedback From Readers - A Highlight of Tam's month!
Including eye-witness accounts from people who had seen the attack on The Forth Rail Bridge in October 1939 and remembering with great fondness "Oor Wullie" and "The Broons". See Feedback From Readers
Sturgeon Takes Over From Salmond
What is Nicola Sturgeon, the newly elected First Minister in the Scottish Parliament, like? See Tam's take on Scotland's First Lady: Sturgeon Takes Over From Salmond.
Rising From the Ashes
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece - some pearls from the ashes and hopes for the future for the Glasgow School of Art. See: Rising From the Ashes
School's Out for Gregory's Girl Setting
Abronhill High School in Cumbernauld was never designed by any architect in the same league as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but it did achieve global prominence when the film "Gregory's Girl" was shot at the school. Now it's being demolished. See: School's Out for Gregory's Girl Setting
Greyfriars Bobby's Nose Job
Tourists rubbing the nose of the statue of "Greyfriar's Bobby" for luck continue to cause damage. See: Greyfriars Bobby's Nose Job
Trumpberry and Trumpwick
Having taken over Turnberry Hotel and famous Golf Course in Ayrshire, Donald Trump forecasts lots of high flyers landing at Prestwick Airport. See: Trumpberry and Trumpwick
Booking in on global top-spot
The Atholl Palace, an hotel in Pitlochry, has been named as one of the most "jaw-dropping" places in the world to stay. See: Booking in on global top-spot
Archive of Papers of Muriel Spark, Chronicler of Miss Jean Brodie
The crème de la crème of the Muriel Spark archive is to return home. See: Archive of Papers of Muriel Spark, Chronicler of Miss Jean Brodie
Oor Wullie - the Collectible !
A first edition of the Oor Wullie annual from 1940 has been sold for £5,400 (over US$8,000) See: Oor Wullie - the Collectible !
Popping in to Tesco in a Poetic Way
A Sonnet to a Supermarket got a surprise reaction from the company chairman! See: Popping in to Tesco in a Poetic Way
Next Newsletter
The next newsletter is scheduled for 20 December and will be the last for 2014.
Yours aye
Scottie
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